Pilots who brought ex-Kyrgyz President Bakiyev to Kazakhstan granted state awards
17:39, 7 May 2010
ASTANA. May 7. KAZINFORM /Serik Sabekov/ The pilots who brought ex-President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev to Kazakhstan have been granted state awards. Kazinform has learnt from the representatives of the Defense Ministry who said while handing out supreme state awards to the pilots in Akorda Palace today.
Igor Beilin, a pilot of air force of the Kazakhstan Ministry of Defense, senior supervisor received the II Degree Aibyn Order from the President's hands.
All six crew members had been nominated for awards which were presented to them by the Minister of Defense yesterday, I. Beilin said.